The drivers of value creation in Mitsui & Co. Group are all our capable individuals. To “build brighter futures, everywhere”, we need individuals around the world to achieve growth. We believe that the key to individual career development is a commitment to take responsibility for developing and gaining one’s own unique strong suit and competitive edge. We have developed a variety of measures to provide strong support and opportunities for such pursuits.

People are Mitsui & Co. Group’s greatest assets and its source of sustainable value creation. To continuously create new value by providing solutions to numerous social issues, Mitsui & Co. Group looks for people who can adapt quickly to change and design effective future strategies. The key words in pursuing and retaining such valuable personnel are Professional, Striving for inclusive culture, and Continuing autonomous growth.

In Mitsui, autonomous career formation is defined as taking responsibility for the development of one’s own strengths in ways that earn the respect of customers and partners. We also believe that career formation requires employees to clearly define roadmaps to reach their goals and autonomously accumulate the experience and skills needed to achieve those goals.

Career formation is achieved through the efforts of individuals with support from their colleagues. In Mitsui & Co. Group, we respect the wishes of the individuals to the greatest possible extent, and also place a high value on the fulfillment of their responsibilities to support their colleagues and others around them as the first step on the path to career formation

When employees build in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business domains, products, fields, and regions and collaborate closely with one another, we can make optimal use of our management capital. This leads to their autonomous endeavors to create, grow, and extend business toward new value creation worldwide. We define “capable individuals” as people who reciprocally enhance their abilities through collaboration with others in the spirit of “Challenge and Innovation,” and we have made the development of such people a priority on a global basis.

Mitsui & Co. Group offers a variety of opportunities so that its global employees can use their strengths to take on ambitious and challenging tasks, contribute to the organization, and experience a real sense of growth according to their career aspirations.

First of all, thanks to Mitsui & Co. Group’s key advantages, in the form of the various types of business fields it engages in and the global matrix structure combining business and regional axes, employees have opportunities to transfer flexibly and agilely across organizational boundaries. Secondly, Mitsui & Co. Group offers an inclusive environment, which thrives on the strengths of diverse individuals, and encourages them to tackle new challenges and innovation. Third, Mitsui & Co. Group’s global business frontlines offer abundant opportunities for employees to grow as capable individuals, while structured training programs supplement their growth.

By making full use of these opportunities, capable, diverse individuals continuously pursue challenge and innovation in ways that match our business strategies. This process generates and maintains a virtuous cycle of career realization by each employee and improvement in the corporate value of Mitsui & Co. Group. We see this process as the optimal value creation model for Mitsui & Co. Group.

In addition, the introduction of Bloom, our new global talent management system, will further accelerate the realization of our human resources strategy.